We bring our purpose built clinic vehicle to your village and see your residents there. A full hour each, including choosing glasses. If a room suits your community better, we set up inside instead. Bulk billed to Medicare for residents with a valid Medicare card, and it costs the village nothing.
Residents walk to the clinic vehicle, sit down with the optometrist, and walk back.
We park the clinic vehicle close to the entrance and residents come out to us. Where the village prefers an indoor clinic day, a room with a power point works well.
Residents or their family put their names down. Once around five residents at one village have enrolled, we lock in a date and confirm it with the village manager. Ten fills a full day. Smaller groups can often still be accommodated, just ask.
Examinations are bulk billed to Medicare for residents with a valid Medicare card. Hosting us costs the village nothing, with no charge for being on site and no minimum spend.
A full hour per resident, covering the examination and choosing frames. Family or a carer is welcome to sit in for the whole appointment.
Older eyes take longer to assess properly. There are usually more findings to work through, more questions, often a family member in the room, and choosing glasses that suit someone takes time of its own.
A retirement village is a community of independent adults who make their own decisions. A residential facility has care staff, representatives and clinical handover to work with.
Our starting point, and where the enrolment model applies. We are a visiting service. The clinic vehicle parks at the village for the day, or we set up in a room the village lends us.
The village provides the parking or the room, and lets residents know we are coming.
Higher care settings, where consent, mobility and cognition change how the visit runs. The facility coordinates who is seen and when.
No eyewear is ever purchased without the consent of the resident or their nominated representative.
We park the clinic vehicle and are ready for the first resident. If the day is running from a room instead, you point us at it and we do the rest.
A comprehensive examination at an unhurried pace. Carers or family are welcome to sit in for the whole appointment.
If glasses are needed, the full frame range is there on the day. Measurements are taken the same hour, so nobody has to come back for that.
Glasses are processed, then delivered and adjusted in person on a return visit. A written summary goes to the resident, and to the care team or GP where requested.
This is the same standard of examination a resident would receive in a fixed practice. Every optometrist attending is AHPRA registered and therapeutically endorsed, so prescription eye medications can be issued on the spot where clinically appropriate.
Topcon vision testers and digital acuity charts for accurate prescribing.
Slit lamp biomicroscopy for cataract assessment, dry eye, lid disease and post operative review.
Tonometry for intraocular pressure, plus visual field testing where indicated.
Retinal diagnostic lenses for macular and diabetic monitoring, with referral arranged where required.
Information on this page is general in nature and not a substitute for professional advice. If you have any concerns about your eyes, contact us.
A full frame range travels with the clinic, along with dispensing, adjustments, repairs and name labelling.
Residents with a valid Medicare card pay nothing out of pocket for the examination itself. Residents without a valid Medicare card are quoted before we start. A comprehensive examination is $110.
On DVA and MASS. Registration for the Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Queensland Medical Aids Subsidy Scheme is in progress. If you have veteran residents, or residents who rely on the MASS spectacle scheme, tell us when you enquire. It helps us prioritise, and we will confirm timing with you directly.
Medicare frequency. Residents with a valid Medicare card are bulk billed regardless of when their last examination was. We recommend a comprehensive examination every year from age 65, and more often where there is a clinical reason such as diabetes, glaucoma or a recent change in vision. We take care of the Medicare billing.
Eyewear is separate and always optional. An examination never obliges anyone to buy glasses. Where glasses are wanted, the family or nominated representative is told what is recommended and what it costs, and payment is arranged with whoever is authorised to make it. A private examination for a resident without a valid Medicare card is $110, invoiced to the resident or their representative.
If we have not visited your village yet, this is how it starts. Put a name down and we will keep count. Once around five residents at the same village have enrolled, we confirm a date with the village manager and let everyone who enrolled know. There is no cost and no obligation in registering.
Thanks, we have the enrolment. We will be in touch within one business day, and we will let you know as soon as a clinic day at your village is confirmed.
Prefer to talk it through? Call +61 402 725 735 or email admin@sightonsite.com.au.
Short list, and none of it costs anything.
Somewhere for the clinic vehicle to park near the entrance. If we are setting up inside instead, a common room with a power point, ideally one we can darken for part of the examination.
How many residents are interested, and consent from each resident or their representative. We can supply the consent wording.
We provide a printed visiting day notice and a sign up sheet for reception, so residents who do not use email can still put their name down.
Tell us the hours that work and we will build the day around them.
Residents should bring any current glasses and their Medicare card. It speeds up the appointment and shows us what they are wearing now.
One person we can confirm details with, and who can pass on our written summaries to care staff or family where that is part of the arrangement.
Hosting us costs the village nothing. There is no charge for our service being on site and no minimum spend. We schedule a clinic day once around five residents have enrolled, and we will often commit with fewer. Examinations are bulk billed to Medicare for residents with a valid Medicare card. The only thing the village provides is somewhere for the clinic vehicle to park, or a room and a power point if we set up inside.
Around five enrolled residents makes a clinic day viable, and ten fills it. If you are close to five we will usually commit anyway rather than keep people waiting. If your village is larger, we schedule more than one day.
An older patient usually has more to assess, more findings to explain, often a family member in the room, and then the business of choosing glasses that suit them. An hour covers the examination and the dispensing properly.
A full comprehensive examination, identical in standard to a fixed practice. That includes refraction, slit lamp examination of the anterior eye, intraocular pressure for glaucoma, retinal assessment, and visual fields where indicated. Findings are documented and referred on where needed.
Yes, both. Please tell us when you enquire if you have veteran residents or residents who use MASS, so we can have the paperwork ready. Medicare bulk billing and on the spot health fund claiming are available now.
The full frame range travels with us, so frames are chosen and measured during the same appointment. The glasses are then processed and we return to deliver and fit them in person. Nothing is ever purchased without the consent of the resident or their nominated representative.
Yes. Residents are seen in the clinic vehicle or in a quiet room the facility provides, and the examination will be catered to the patient's needs. Familiar staff or family are welcome to stay throughout. Where a resident cannot be moved, we can do a modified assessment at the bedside. Consent is obtained from the resident or their representative in the usual way.
Yes, for residential aged care and supported living, and for village residents where they have asked us to. We provide a concise written summary of findings and recommendations to the nominated care contact, the resident's GP, and family contacts where that is part of the agreed arrangement. Onward referral to an ophthalmologist is arranged by us directly.
We are based in Logan and our standard service area covers South East Queensland: Brisbane Inner and CBD, Brisbane Northside, Brisbane Southside, Logan, Ipswich, Redlands and Bayside, and the Gold Coast. The Sunshine Coast is by arrangement. If you are unsure whether your village is in range, ask. Workplace, school, aged care and group visits are always travel fee free. Group visits outside the standard area can often still be accommodated by special request. Ask us.
Most residents need a comprehensive examination once a year, so an annual visit suits many villages, with a return trip in between to deliver and fit glasses. Where there is clinical need, such as diabetes or glaucoma monitoring, we schedule those residents more frequently. We plan for an ongoing arrangement.
Village managers can host a clinic day. Residents can put a name down.
Tell us about your village and roughly how many residents might be interested. We will send through the visiting day notice and sign up sheet, agree a date that fits around your routine, and handle the rest. It costs the village nothing.
Enrol yourself or a family member and we will keep count. Once enough residents at the village have registered, we confirm a date and let you know. No cost, no obligation, and you can withdraw at any time.